Sinerathin

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Stuck in the surprisingly strong grip of the Draenei barbarian, Malizia found herself unable to free herself.

Rather than trying to force her way out of Mei's grasp through brute strength however, she would instead raise her runeblade up to the side in order to slice it down alongside Mei's arm, leaving a small cut down its side. While the cut was nothing major in and of itself, the moment the naked blade of the Runeblade touched and pierced Mei's skin, it was as though a frigid chill shot like a shock through her arm, temporarily leaving her muscles there numb and unresponsive.

This created a small window of oppertunity that was all Malizia needed in order to get free from the brutish Draenei's lock and back away, before reaching back to unsheath her second runeblade!

In the meantime, Sharon had been desperately trying to hold on to Mei's hair while also trying to avoid being caught under either of the two combatans as the two large women had just tumbled a bit down the stairs. Regaining his balance on Mei's shoulder just in time to see Malizia reach for her other Runeblade, he would quickly point his silver staff at her hand and utter a single word:

"Ruth!"

And with that word of enchantment, a kinetic blast shot out from the tip of his staff, hitting Malizia's left hand just as she unseathed the Runeblade. This caused it to be blown back, losing its grip around the handle and leaving the second Runeblade to tumble down the stairs!

Having lost one of her Runeblades, Malizia's eyes soon flared with anger, as she noticed the annoying little High Elf on Mei's shoulder. But before she could bring her first Runeblade about in a strike, a gust of fire suddenly burst up from the middle of the stairwell, mostly aimed at her!
Raising one arm to shield her face, she swiped her blade around, summoning a frigid blast that extinguished the gust of flame from Vashi! However, as soon as the flames had been quenched, another fireball soon made its way up the middle of the stairwell.

"Leave me be!" Malizia cried out, clearly frustrated at this point!

However, the fireball that made its way up towards them was no ordinary gust of flame. Instead, it was an explosive fireball, which was made abundantly clear as it suddenly detonated with a violent force behind Malizia, blasting her forward and right into Mei, who in turn was pushed forward by the flying Draenei to fly up to the top of the stairwell, smashing into the wall!

Pasted face to face into Mei, Malizia would pull her face back. At first, the Death Knight would narrow her eyes to cast a vicious glare at Mei and Sharon, before they suddenly opened in a more surprised look as the two Draenei soon found themselves peeling off the wall, and instead began falling down through the middle of the stairwell!

"I'll solve this!" Sharon replied, quickly casting a slow fall spell on Mei, causing all of them to suddenly fall much slower in the air, almost rolling about mid air!

"Look, can you both just take a break for a moment? This is my house! I'd prefer if you did not break it any further!" Sharon called out to the two struggling combatants. A battle of good vs evil be damned, at this rate there'd be nothing left of his mansion much longer!

Especially if Vashi continued playing with fire...

"And YOU! Yes, you, Vashi. Stop that! Stop!" Sharon said as he hung up side down from Mei, pointing at Vashi, and then at some of the walls and steps of the stairwell which at this point had been singed.

The slow fall spell would not last for very long however, as Malizia, realizing that they had stopped, raised a fist and punched Mei right in the face, breaking the spell and causing all three of them to fall at full speed once more down towards the spectating apprentices and Night Elf Mage below!

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“Oh, apparently they’re doing well up there”

"Wonderful, thanks for your help, Apprentice Lennox, but we should not delay any moment longer!" Sharon was quick to state up towards Kathlin, smiling broadly as he raised a hand.

Tossing a quick look around, the tiny High Elf would spare Aleena's butt one last look.

"I don't think he's getting out of there anytime soon... "

Feeling confident that his previous opponent was now safely relegated to the secure confines of Sentinel Aleena's voluptuous backside, a mighty facility that left little chance of escape; Sharon's attention would then return to Kathlin as his thoughts moved on to Liaena...

... and the rather important fact that they had a Death Knight on the loose somewhere in the house as well!

"Let's go help them immediately!" With a snap of his fingers, Kathlin and Sharon would suddenly disappear in a magical blink, leaving behind only a surprised and rather frightened Silje as the girl just realized she had been abandoned in the middle of the great Night Elven melee!

Moments later, they would reappear in the hallway on the second floor. Just in time to see Malizia run towards the stairwell at the end of the hallway on their left. And the other large Draenei, Mei...

... coming flying straight towards them!

It was only through some quick thinking that Kathlin managed to take a step back just as Mei barreled past them like an airborne torpedo!

Clinging to Kathlin as to avoid being thrown off as the apprentice made the necessary evasive maneuvers to avoid the airborne Draenei, Sharon would catch a glimpse of Liaena coming from the other direction, offering her a positive wave and brief smile as he swung around on a strand of Kathlin's hair!

Further down the hallway, at Malizia, the Death Knight was in a mad dash for the stairwell; having just about reached it when she suddenly heard the familiar cry of Mei right behind her!

"What in the name of the shad,-" Malizia muttered, having barely taken the first step up the stairwell as she turned to look around, just in time to see Mei before the other large Draenei just collided right into her; the two of them crashing into the bottom of the stairwell with a heavy crunch that left at least some of the first steps broken beneath the two large warriors!

"Get OFF me!" Malizia would gasp for her breath, before raising one hoof and suddenly kicking Mei off her, panting as she turned around and hurried up the narrow side stairwell of the mansion.

As Mei was kicked back, she would notice a faint shimmer from her shoulder as the tiny figure of Sharon appeared on it, as if having magically blinked to her.

"Need a hand?" Sharon inquired with a smile, before laying one glove on the side of Mei's neck.

Muttering a quick word, Mei would soon find herself losing her footing of the material ground beneath her as the world all around her would give in to a complete darkness instead, and she would experience a sensation of falling. But the strange sensation would only last for a couple of seconds, for in the next moment, Mei would rematerialize back into the real world, this time staring straight down at an incoming Malizia!

Mei and Sharon had been teleported further up in the stairwell, right in front of the path of the fleeing Malizia!

However, because Malizia was already slightly dazed from being hit by Mei from before, it took the Death Knight a while to realize that her pursuer had suddenly appeared in front of her; Malizia's head hanging slightly low as she was instead focused on looking behind her as she was running up the stairs. The result of this would be that Malizia, unwittingly, would charge straight up against Mei, ramming the latter's stomach with her head!

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Argh, how did you know that flying furniture out of nowhere was Malizia's weakness?!

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War has hardened many warriors, both in body, and in mind.

It has bred strong men and women who could endure hardship that would break lesser people, washing away any weakness or vulnerability.

It was the fire that tempered the person, making them harder, stronger than they would otherwise have been.

But despite all that, it did not however prepare them for a large, flying desk of mahogany as was the case with Malizia, as the Death Knight was caught off guard by the giant, floating piece of furniture as it crashed into her and smashed her into the side of a wall in the office, breaking through the old wooden plates and tossing her into the sideroom where she was buried under a half broken desk and a lot of rubble!

"This... is not going as planned!"

Malizia let out a painful groan as she turned one hand around beneath the broken desk, holding the palm of her hand up against it.

Using her dark magic, she summoned a black tendril to push the broken furniture off her; smashing it through the hole leading to the office and destroying yet another section of the wall!

With pained grunts, she staggered onto her feet amidst the dust and rubble. As she stood up, she noticed that her arm was dislocated, a problem she solved by smashing it into one of the nearby walls and letting out a muffled, brief shriek as the bone snapped back into place!

"Screw this place... I'm leaving right now!" She mumbled to herself as she sheated one of her Runeblades, holding the other one still in her right hand as she carefully opened the door to the room and stepped out into the corridor, before hurrying down along it as she aimed to reach the top floors of the mansion!

"Where in the twisting nether is that little High Elf? I thought he was supposed to be supporting me!"

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"Gaahh, these Keldorei are insane!" Valion muttered as he staggered to his feet, Aleena having been lifted off him.

Hunched over and grabbing his side, Valion was in the midst of struggling to regain his breath when he looked up at his 'savior', only to see the familiar face of Kathlin towering over him.

"Thanks, little.. " Valion began to speak, raising his right arm up towards her; a haunting, purple light beginning to glow and twirl around his armored gauntlet. But as he was about to cast the spell, he would suddenly notice the expanding shadow around him. Pausing, he would look up, only to see a pair of gigantic, round purple buttocks that were rapidly growing bigger and bigger as they raced down towards him!

" ... girl... "

Valion only managed to finish his sentence before Aleena landed right on him, the tiny elf disappearing completely beneath Aleena's wide rear!

In the meantime, a rather disheveled Sharon would be dusting himself off; just managing to catch a glimpse of the inglorious takedown of his opponent; courtesy of Aleena's big butt.

“You do seem to end up in these sorts of situations a lot, don’t you?” Kathlin commented, causing the High Elf to raise a brow as he glanced at her.

"It does tend to happen when you hold wild parties, or invite forty plus big, purple amazons to your house.. or both. But it could have been worse." Sharon would comment dryly as he finished brushing himself off, before casting a off-hand look at Aleena's butt before smirking back at Kathlin.

"I guess you could say he was into that booty."

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I can't tell if those two are actually trying help, or just cause chaos...

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"My sin was trying to save my race from oblivion!"

Malizia reacted as Mei came in for a kick by stepping backwards, sweeping out in a strike against the incoming kick and hitting her leg armor. The armor prevailed, but Mei could feel a tingling cold sensation coming from her legs as blue and ghostly misty tendrils crept from Malizia's runeblade and onto her leg armor for the brief moment they touched.

Readjusting her sword, Malizia instead swiped it in an upwards sweep against Mei's face. The Draenei succeeded in avoiding the incoming Runeblade, but did not have time to dodge the second as Malizia glided her other Runeblade across her left flank as she passed her by, leaving a shallow gash on Mei's left!

The physical pain of the strike would perhaps be the least of Mei's worry. In the brief moment that Malizia's blade had touched, it had felt as though an overwhelming wave of chill had jolted through her body, dropping her internal body temperature by a couple of degrees. Though the wound was only superficial for the most part, it was as though a dark presence had entered her, sapping some of her will and courage. The wound at her side was not bleeding - in fact, it was frozen shut.

"I was cast out because I would not let myself become blinded by the Light!" Malizia spoke as she turned to look back at Mei, pointing her left Runeblade at her.
"I saw through its petty lies and promises for the blissful ignorance that it truly was! I was one of the few that realized that victory would take more than vain hope and foolish ideals that were utterly unfit for the realities of war!"

Malizia's eyes narrowed sharply on Mei, the Draenei ignoring the blood that seeped down across her left eye.

"Our misguided ideas of right and just were just as dangerous to us as the Orcs themselves - if not more so!"

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Silje-Serphia had not hesitated to take the antitode, and it did not take long before a new, 5ft and 6 girl stood next to them in the corridor, blond hair and blue eyes. Serphia's oversized armor had long since fallen off her, and she cloaked herself instead in the Captain's still-very-much-so oversized cloak!

"Sharon, you mean the yellow haired High Elf?" Silje inquired as she looked towards Liaena and Kathlin, her eyes remaining on the latter.

"I think I saw him chase after the 'Mindbreaker' after he escaped your bag and out into the corridor before we exited." Silje explained, removing one hand from the cloak to point down along the hallway to the left, which lead towards the stairs to the atrium where the sound of the great Night Elven brawl could still be heard!
"I never realized anyone so tiny could run that fast... "

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Despite the lack of any obvious level of consciousness, Malizia's puppet body put up an adamant fight against Serphia's sudden onslaught.

Her arms twitched whenever an attack was brought against her, bringing her own Runeblades in to defend and deflect the attacks. Serphia's flurry of attacks rained like a hail of lightning fast blows against her, each of which the runeblades reached out to deflect with mechanical precision.

"YOU WILL DIE FOR YOUR SINS, TRAITOR!"

As if suddenly awaking from a deep slumber, Malizia would slow down for a moment when she heard Mei, slowly opening her dreary eyes to gaze forward.
This brief slowdown would be enough for Serphia to get another attack in as Malizia lowered her runeblade, the elf's blade striking against the Draenei's head as it met the metal cirle around her temple; stopped, but leaving a deep dent in the circlet, as well as a light scar down across Malizia's left eyebrow!

"Akk!"

Waking back to life, Malizia's eyes would turn back to Serphia, before the Draenei spun out of place just as Mei came charging in from behind!

The result was that Serphia's fury would be directed not at Malizia, but instead at the newly arrived Draenei! A high kick from the powerful legs of the Captain, originally meant for Malizia, would instead fly straight into the incoming Mei's face, causing the Draenei to almost do a reversed barrel roll as she slammed into the ground with her back at Serphia's side!

Stepping back towards the side of the two, Malizia would raise her two cursed runeblades, now covered in a frosty rime as a chilling mist seemed to emanate from the metal. Holding them like an X in front of her, Malizia would glare through them at Serphia and Mei, half of the Draenei's face now covered by a stream of dark blue blood running down from it.

"What does the word "treason" even mean when we brand our only heroes as such, simply because they are the only ones with the will to do what is necessary to save their people?"

Malizia spoke, her eyes focused mainly on Mei as she the other Draenei still lay next to Serphia's feet.

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“Did you know that that was a death knight?”

"A... a-a a Death Knight?" Silje-Serphia managed to speak, her face now covered with various scratches and bruisiers with her hair sprawled all over. Looking over to Kathlin, she raised her voice and pointed at her face.

"Nobody told me the Night Elves had a Death Knight! She almost killed me!" She exclaimed as she leaned against the wall next to where Kathlin sat in front of the door.

"I'm no... no *Pant* I am not made for this fighting stuff! Light, I'm just a cultural student at the Stormwind's Royal Academy for Anthropological & History Studies, for crying out loud! If I had known that they were going to have me impersonate a hyper-violent, bloodthirsty psychopathic Night Elven Death Knight without the latter consenting about it in the first place, I would kindly have asked Mister Nielsen to go fuck himself!"

Silje-Serphia spoke with a shaky voice. On half of her face, she now seemed furious, but on the other side, she seemed terrified beyond reason and almost crying.

"I mean... light, they told me this would be like four hours at most! What have I gotten myself into?!!"

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Outside in the corridor, Sharon and Valion were circling one another on the banister, eyeing each other intently.

Around them they could hear the sound of a brawl. Although some of it emanated from the direction of Sharon's own study, most of it was actually coming from the chaotic brawl right below them on the first floor where it seemed Serphia's entire warband had broken into a wild free for all, where those elves who weren't passed out drunk had participated in the all-out melee!

Had this been any other normal moment, Sharon would be lamenting the unjust destruction of his furniture. But right now, the illusionist standing in front of him demanded his sole attention!

"I tire of this cliche!" Valion exclaimed as he blocked Sharon's sword with his scepter, sliding it aside before doing a quick jab with his own sword.
"Die!"

Sharon quickly sidestepped the incoming thrust from Valion's black blade, all the while lining his own sword up in a upwards-side sweep! As he did, his silver blade began to glow with a mystic blue light, interwoven with white, crackling tendrils of lightning before swiping it up against Valion's lower chestplate!

The strike would be a direct hit, slicing across the warped surface the illusionist's saronite armor with such a force it would send shards of black metal flying and leave a wide dent as Valion stumbled back!

At this time, any illusion Liaena had been seeing would suddenly disappear!

"Aaaaaargh!"

"I'm afraid to disappoint you, but nobody is dying today." Sharon replied as he walked across the surface of the bannister towards the black armored elf.
"You don't have to either. Leave the mad plots of my brother behind, and let's have a civil discussion like two grown ups... !"

Sharon barely didn't manage to finish the last sentence before Valion had already raised his plated arm and fired out a shadowbolt straight at him, narrowly missing Sharon's head! But as he dodged, Sharon would quickly realize that he had almost run out of available space on the surface of the banister, as he almost stepped off and fell!

"That was too closeoooohsshit!"

While frantically waving his arms to maintain balance, Sharon would see Valion charge in from the front with his black sword. Only by raising his armored glove did he manage to block the sword before it could be brought against him, but the kinetic force of the blow was enough for him to begin to tip backwards and off the edge of the banister! Frantically trying to find something to grab a hold of, Sharon would drop his sword and reach around Valion's waist.

But even the other High Elf was not in a position of balance, and soon found himself pulled off the banister, falling off alongside Sharon as the two elves fell down towards the main atrium floor.

"Unlike you, I do not fear battle, Dal'dieb!"

Valion would exclaim as they fell, reaching his armored hand around Sharon's throat as he began to squeeze! But as Sharon attempted to grab his hand in return, the two shrunk elves would already have reached the first floor, dropping right into the chaotic purple mass that constituted the free-for-all Night Elf brawl!

With a thud, the two tiny elves would fall down and land onto the back of one of the Night Elves as she was wrestling with another beneath her. Sharon and Valion were momentarily separated as they rolled away to each side, but would quickly get back onto their feet, rushing against one another as they ran across the Sentinel's back! Yet before they could clash with one another, the Sentinel below them would be suddenly kicked off! Both Sharon and Valion would both be thrown off and land on the floor, only barely managing to recover in time as they first looked at one another, then at the back of the massive Night Elf as she fell towards them, before rolling away as the Sentinel crashed between them!

As she landed with a heavy crash, the two elves would leap up into the air, landing on her belly to strike at one another. Exchanging a couple of brief blows, there would be an awkward pause as the two of them suddenly looked to the side, and saw the opponent of the Sentinel they were fighting on top of suddenly throw herself at her in a body slam!
In the split second before the giant Night Elves collided with one another, the two mages would blink away before getting sandwiched between the Sentinels!

Reappearing on the ground next to the wrestling elves, they would not even exchange a word as they charged against one another!

"I much preferred fighting on the banister to this!"

Even though they were now fighting on the ground as opposed to on top of the wrestling elves, it was not much of an improvement. Sharon found himself having to pay just as much attention to his surroundings as he did to Valion, constantly looking out to make sure none of the surrounding elves didn't step on him, accidentally roll over them without any warning or suddenly fall on him! The two tiny High Elves were caught in the center of the huge brawl, with gigantic Night Elves surrounding them! This was a fight where the environment would be just as dangerous as his opponent!

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Since when has the mad potion bombardier approach ever failed you, @Feychild? :)

Hmmm now that I think about it there was a nelf that kind of tried to eat a human in this RP.... so Rithy may indeed try to eat you! Be careful!

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I do think I've spent enough time around her to recognize most of the usual dangers associating with her Night Elves presents :P

Really, they have striking similarities to that of a walking natural disaster.

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“Get them to stop fighting, Lieutenant, or I will! Don’t you get it!? He’s going to kill her!”

"He kill who?"

From atop of Rithrynn's shoulder, Sharon squinted his eyes as he looked quizzically at the seemingly bizarre behavior from Liaena. What she was saying did not make any sense. From what he could tell, Sharon was the only man inside the room... aside from the other High Elf whom Kathlin had caught, Valion.

Seeking to get to the mystery of this, Sharon would mutter a quiet spell as he attempted to detect the magic within the room.

And sure enough, through the spell, he would sense that there was indeed mystic powers surrounding Liaena. Possibly addling her mind. Because he doubted the simple Vashi was a high-end manipulator in disguise, that left Sharon to suspect the only other mage in the room other than himself and Vashi.

"I need to stop him!" Sharon muttered himself as he looked around, trying to find the cloak slash bag used by Kathlin, and indeed he saw it; the girl being crouched over Lisa-Lithrielle with the bag under one knee.

The bag, however, seemed surprisingly light; and as Sharon looked closer, he could make out a small figure standing next to it, wielding a sword and a staff. It was none other than Valion, who had just sliced his way out of the cloak and was quickly making his way away from Kathlin who at the moment were quite occupied with tending to the chevalier Night Elf.

"Take care of the Death Knight, I'll deal with the Dark Magi!" Sharon quickly spoke to Rithrynn as the smaller High Elf would draw his sword, before blinking off Rithrynn's shoulder!

As Valion was hurrying along the carpet floor of the corridor outside, he would suddenly notice another magical presence. Spinning around just in time, Valion succeeded in barely dodging an incoming sword blow as Sharon materialized right behind him in, already making a swing towards him!

"Ahh, so the foolhardy prey finally seeks out its own hunter. This will make things easier." Valion would grin through the one scar across his helmet as he walked back, parrying the next blows with his sword and staff.

"Do not confuse our roles, novice." Sharon spoke in return, taking another swipe at Valion just as the smaller mage would blink away; reappearing atop of one of the ornate wooden railings looking out across the main atrium below. Sharon would immediately follow, blinking after him and appearing in front of him where he fired an arcane blast that Valion blocked with a magical barrier!

"For they have just changed!

Meanwhile, in the back of the room, the animated body of Malizia would turn in the general direction of Rithrynn and Vashi who were standing in the door. The Draenei seemed still unconscious, and so was not actually looking at any of them with her head or eyes, yet the way the body was positioned made it perfectly clear to the elves that they were the puppet's center of attention!

"Mit-ram-rosh!" A invisible, warped and guttural voice suddenly spoke throughout the room; seeming to emanate from Malizia's spot; as the puppet suddenly pointed with one of its Runeblades towards Rithrynn.

Without any warning, Rithrynn could suddenly feel herself be launched forward towards the Draenei by invisible hands, tossing her through the room at great speed and right towards the tip of the extended Runeblade that had been raised to meet her by the puppet!

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“I didn’t want to hurt him” Kathlin spoke, but those words would never each Liaena's ears before she felt a numbing presence in her head.

As Liaena was moving to catch up with Kathlin, the latter holding her winter cloak with Valion still inside of it, Liaena could suddenly feel an audible ting inside of her brain, as if her entire head became twice as heavy for a couple of seconds; the periphery of her vision becoming momentarily hazy.

The effect would be short lived, and the heavy presence quickly abated. Yet if she tried to think of any of the events that had just occurred within the last ten seconds, it was as though she was unable to find them within her mind; a part of her body telling her that they were there but she just couldn't recover them for some reason.

But perhaps the thing that would draw Liaena's attention the most would not be the odd sensation, but what she saw in front of her when she opened her eyes.

In front of her stood Valion, clad in his warped and blackened saronite armor. The elf was no longer shrunk, and in his hand he held a folded winter cloak.

"Did you truly think it would be that easy?" Valion spoke from behind his twisted metal mask, his one eye visible through a scar running down the right side. Judging by the way it moved, it seemed as if the High Elf was smirking behind his mask.

The winter cloak he was holding much like a bag in his hand was sprawling about as if someone was caught inside of it; Kathlin's voice being audible from within it.

"Hello? Li, are you there? What just happened?!" Kathlin called out from within the bag.

Still holding the makeshift cloak bag, Valion would move his armored glove a little further down and begin to squeeze on it in front of Liaena's eyes; as soon grunts of discomforts and small shrieks of pain began to emanate from Kathlin within it.

"Call your friends back, or you will lose one today." Valion spoke as he stared back at Liaena from through the scar in his mask.

However, while Liaena stood face to face with Valion, everyone else in the room would just see the normal scene of Kathlin, holding her winter cloak, and perhaps looking a little confused at Liaena's odd behavior.

"Who are you and what did you do to my sister?!"

"I DIDN'T DO... " Lisa-Lithrielle was about to start defending herself, when she soon realized that diplomacy was probably bound to get her nowhere!

Rapidly looking around, she would unsling the two ornate scabbards on her back, reaching to grab for the handle of one of the swords!

"Captain Malizia, your swor,- URK!"

Lisa-Lithrielle would grab a hold of one of the sword's handle and move to unsheath it, but by the time the sword had only reached a couple of inches out of its sheath; the Chevalier elf would immediately freeze up, her eyes growing wide as if someone had just paralyzed her!

The moment the sword left its sheath, a invisible aura of cold and hopelessness would immediately wash over the room, crawling its way up the spine of every living creature inside the room! It was a dark sensation, as if any sense of happiness or bravery was immediately dimmed in the presence of the cursed object.

Lisa-Lithrielle, her eyes having just gone white, began to slowly look down towards the sword she was holding; her hand shaking as if she was trying to fight against some invisible force.

And then, without warning, the Runeblade would suddenly fly out of its sheath as if on its own volition! The second Runeblade would fly out of its sheath as well, that one randomly brushing against Lisa-Lithrielle's arm and leaving a deep, bloodied gash! As the two Runeblades zoomed past Rithrynn and Vashi, Lisa-Lithrielle would fall unconscious on the floor, her eyes completely white and a wound on her arm bleeding profusely.

Soaring through the room like missiles, the first Runeblade would head straight for Malizia. As it approached the unconscious Draenei, she would suddenly shoot up an arm; catching the Runeblade mid flight as she got up; spinning around as she catched the other Runeblade as well with mechanical efficiency!

Yet as Malizia rose to her feet, she looked different.

Her eyes were still shut and her head hanging to the side, as if she was still asleep, yet her body was moving around in a way similar to that of a marionette being manipulated by invisible strings; moving in unnatural patterns with uneven, twitching motions!
Beneath and around the collar of her chestplate, a dim blue light could be seen coming from her clothes as a runic tattoo, having been invisible before, suddenly glowed to life with a haunting blue light as it snaked its way up the side of her throat and onto her face!